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Speaker 1: Welcome to you Stuff you should Know from house Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Rowland,

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Speaker 1: which makes this stuff you should know. It's right. I

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Speaker 1: got on my top hat and cane your monocle monic

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Speaker 1: to see a monocle. I thought it was not this'

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Speaker 1: Mr Peanut. Oh yeah, not Mr Monopoly. And I think

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Speaker 1: Mr Pringle has a monocle too, don't you know, he

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Speaker 1: says an anostatic. Mr Monopoly doesn't have a monocle. Huh,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. Huh. You'd think we'd know. We

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Speaker 1: do not, But I do know this Mr Monopoly is

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Speaker 1: a nickname for that man. That's right. His born name

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Speaker 1: is given name by his parents is rich Uncle Pennybags.

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Speaker 1: Three names, so uncle would be his middle name. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well he even has a regular name too. Oh not

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Speaker 1: that I saw. Yeah, it is Um Millburn Pennybags. No. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was a book Um published and this is one

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Speaker 1: of those after the fact deals called the Monopoly Companion,

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Speaker 1: and they named all the character characters on the board

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Speaker 1: Milbourne Penny Bags. And then the jail guy is Jake.

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Speaker 1: The jailbird and the police officer and go to jail

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Speaker 1: is I'll bet a tyrus, isn't it? Well, Officer Edgar Mallory,

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Speaker 1: I really do you just gets that? Yeah, that's pretty funny.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about Monopoly, by the way. Oh yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is not about anything else but Monopoly. No. And I

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Speaker 1: was just remarking to you, sir, how I've never seen

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Speaker 1: one of our This had more supplemental information than most

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Speaker 1: shows that we research. Yeah. I can explain why because

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Speaker 1: this was written. There was a whole suite of UM

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Speaker 1: game articles written like um just how to play certain games.

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Speaker 1: So it kind of came out in this mentality and

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Speaker 1: of this is the game, and here's how we explain

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Speaker 1: how to play it, and this article is done. Whereas Monopoly,

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Speaker 1: it's like this is more like McDonald's or Twinkies or

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Speaker 1: something like that. It's like a cultural cog. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: mean there's so much extra junk history. And I mean

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Speaker 1: you talk about the different versions, it's ridiculous Milburn Penny pennybags. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, that was a post that he

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Speaker 1: wasn't originally called that. This is I think Monopoly probably

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Speaker 1: wanted to sell a little a Little Book or two.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they did. Because if one thing we've learned

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Speaker 1: about Parker Brothers and now has Bro is they love

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Speaker 1: selling different versions of this game. Yeah, they do. They

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Speaker 1: like licensing it off a lot of money. They like

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Speaker 1: making some changes. Here they're releasing a brand new game,

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Speaker 1: but it's all still the same game and all of it,

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Speaker 1: Um came from a left wing Quaker intellectual at the

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Speaker 1: turn of the last century. Yeah it was. I'm saying that, right, Yeah, sure, okay,

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Speaker 1: let it sounds right. Uh. And it's interesting to me

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Speaker 1: that the game of Monopoly, which is all about capitalism,

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Speaker 1: bankrupting or neighbor was stolen. The game was stolen from

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Speaker 1: a leftist intellectual Quaker. In the original version of the game,

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Speaker 1: it was to teach against the monopolies and how they

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Speaker 1: were bad. Right, So let's talk about this monopoly. Actually,

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Speaker 1: if you trace it back to about the like the

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Speaker 1: literal beginning of the twentieth century, Um, it's what's considered

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Speaker 1: a folk game. There were a lot of people playing

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Speaker 1: versions like this and cities all over the country. But again,

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Speaker 1: they all shared some pretty common viewpoints. Uh. I guess

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Speaker 1: this thing called Georgism, which was based on some other philosophies.

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Speaker 1: But the idea of it is is that if you

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Speaker 1: produce something through the through your own labor, your own work,

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Speaker 1: you own that that should not be taxed. What should

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Speaker 1: be taxes things that everybody owns. If somebody's taking something

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Speaker 1: that you shouldn't even be a landowner. Whole concept of

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Speaker 1: for centuries, if not millennia, and then um, once people

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Speaker 1: the community for the greater good. So that's Georgeism, and

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Speaker 1: of monopoly what was originally called the Landlord's Game, which

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Speaker 1: is created by a lady named Lizzie Maggie m A

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Speaker 1: yourself like the evils of capitalism. But she actually came

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Speaker 1: One was where you got as rich as you could

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Speaker 1: at the expense of everybody else. The other was a

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Speaker 1: basically the community benefited. And you can kind of see

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Speaker 1: that today and like these weird things like community chest,

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Speaker 1: like why would I want to you know, pay into

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Speaker 1: like now it's a bad thing. In her original version,

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Speaker 1: that was the basis of the whole thing. Yeah, which

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Speaker 1: usual outcomes and consequences. So you know, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: to teach people lessons. H and she had it stolen

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Speaker 1: from her. Luckily, Lizzie, Maggie was smart enough to patent

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Speaker 1: this game. Uh. It became just kind of a trendy thing. Again,

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Speaker 1: like if you were uh into socialism at the time

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Speaker 1: it was really popular, like you said, like people made

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Speaker 1: up some of their own rules, but it was if

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the original Landlords game board,

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Speaker 1: it looks a lot like the or Monopoly, I mean

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Speaker 1: similar at least. Yeah, and apparently a lot of the

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Speaker 1: today came from uh Lizzie's quicker friends. Like, for example, um,

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Speaker 1: be a loud, obnoxious bidding war. Um. They also um

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Speaker 1: like household objects, which you know, that's why the fimble

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Speaker 1: And then so this thing is being played and Lizzie

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Speaker 1: it to his friend named Charles Darrow. And that's where

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Speaker 1: the story takes a kind of a ceed turn. Well

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Speaker 1: story begins. Yeah. The inventor of Monopoly, Charles Darrow A right,

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Speaker 1: so he was like a radiator salesman during the depression.

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Speaker 1: This is the thirties, right, Yeah, I mean it was

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Speaker 1: ironically again during the depression, this game really caught hold. Well,

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Speaker 1: I supposedly that's what caught the Parker brothers attention was

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Speaker 1: the game end? We don't know what's going on here,

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Speaker 1: so let's just, um, you just go your own way.

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Speaker 1: So Charles Darrow went off and started selling it at

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Speaker 1: this Wannamaker's department store in Philadelphia without pattenting it, right,

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Speaker 1: and um, the Parker Brothers said, you know what, it's

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Speaker 1: the depression, can you believe it. We're not going to

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Speaker 1: have any kind of economic woes like this for another

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Speaker 1: seventy eighty years. And this guy is selling these things

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Speaker 1: like hotcakes. You know what, sir, we will buy your

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Speaker 1: idea from you. And Charles Darrow apparently said, well, that's great.

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Speaker 1: and he said, okay, um, we also need to buy

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Speaker 1: the patent off from this lady named Lizzie Maggie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: digging initially. We'll talk about him later. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Parker brothers now in the game, and uh, it

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Speaker 1: and the game is based on Atlantic City. Uh, those

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Speaker 1: Times article you sent, uh, what's the name of it?

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Speaker 1: Monopoly Goes Corporate. Yeah, it was written by what's the

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Speaker 1: what's the lady's name, Mary Pillin. She is a monopoly expert.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of those out there, I've learned. She well,

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Speaker 1: she wrote a lot of the articles you'll find. Oh really, yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's well. She pointed out that it's interesting that it

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Speaker 1: mirrored sort of the the cartography of the day in

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Speaker 1: Atlantic City, like Boardwalk was clearly like a rich area

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Speaker 1: the Baltic and Mediterranean. The cheapest properties were in African

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Speaker 1: American neighborhoods. There was a reading railroad that transferred people

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Speaker 1: our friends in the gay community, New York Avenue was

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Speaker 1: one of the earliest gay scenes in the country. Yeah, oh,

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Speaker 1: buy that one up and support support the lb GT

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Speaker 1: community that you're playing monopoly. Yeah, that's what I would do.

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Speaker 1: And maybe just you know, don't charge anybody when they land,

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Speaker 1: just be like this is the party place exactly. And

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Speaker 1: Marvin Gardens apparently is misspelled yeah, E instead of an

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of Monopoly facts dropping all around us

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Speaker 1: there's a can we go over, there's a wheelbarrow, Scottie dog,

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Speaker 1: so let's just do something. Well, they let people vote

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Speaker 1: So you've got the box open, you get the board,

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Speaker 1: So you've got, oh, there's and so there's forty squares,

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Speaker 1: the Italians I could see like saying like, yeah, he

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00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: brings the monopoly and who cares. But the Nazis, I

421
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: would think, would I just don't see that. Yeah, I'm

422
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: not saying it was a walk in the park, but

423
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: I think from the depiction and uh, like like I said,

424
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: like the Great Escape. It's not like Vietnam Prison Camp.

425
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, like they weren't playing soccer or Monopoly.

426
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: They were playing Survive Another Day that game. Um, I'm

427
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: not making lie of that, by the way. Oh I

428
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: didn't think you were. And I'm basing everything on more movies,

429
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 1: so I'm probably wrong. And I've seen Uncommon Valor that

430
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: was a good movie that it doesn't age well though.

431
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: Really remember that menu with the gun silhouettes on it.

432
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and when you're twelves, you're like, oh my god. Yeah,

433
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: it's like I would buy that one in that one. Um.

434
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,719
Speaker 1: All right, so where were we we were talking about? Um,

435
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: the board itself, yes, and the different squares. Yes, there

436
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: are the cards that you can draw as well, Community

437
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: chest and chance squares. You land on these you draw

438
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: a card from one of those two piles, and there

439
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: are various things in there, like you want to fashion

440
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: modeling contest you get ten dollars, and their dog show

441
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: one there too. I think there's probably a dog show

442
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: and there's also you know, you have street repairs or

443
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: um those are big time general repairs, and that's based

444
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 1: on your properties that you own. That's right. They can

445
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 1: they can can teach you pretty hard. Yeah, yeah, that's right,

446
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: you know. Um, and that's funny because the Monopoly what

447
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: was her name, Lizzie Maggie in an interview um, she

448
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: gave with some leftist magazine at the time. Um. She

449
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: said she basically called the thing the Game of Life. Yeah,

450
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: that was already taken out. I don't know, was it. Yeah,

451
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 1: that was that's around since the Like midd, I thought

452
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 1: she was being pressing it. Now she's being glib. She was.

453
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: She was making a pop culture reference for the time exactly.

454
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: But did you know apparently there used to be a

455
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: square on the Game of Life board for suicide. Really

456
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: it was the way that you could go. I never

457
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: really played that. I think I played it a couple

458
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: of times. I never did either. I always thought it

459
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: was kind of like you get the whole family in

460
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: the car and it's like whatever. Yeah, we we did, um.

461
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: I mean we weren't the biggest game players as families,

462
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: but we did Monopoly some in Yatzi was a big

463
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: one that I still enjoyed today. I love Yatsu. Yeah.

464
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: We also played this game called Bull and it was

465
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: like a stock trading game with cards. And it's just

466
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: now occurring to me that all these games are just

467
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: teaching you about life. Yeah, it's like real monopolies, nothing

468
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: but real estate. Uh, the game of life is everything.

469
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: This game Bowl was about the stock market. Sorry, it

470
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: was about um sarcastic. Sorry because you had to say

471
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: it like a jerk. Candy Land, we know what that's

472
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: all about. Yeah, drugs, right, probably Shoots and ladders tell

473
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: you to stay away from snakes. Yeah, operation tell you

474
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 1: how to be the door. Oh yeah, that's right, that's right.

475
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: I got my m D. And then of course, uh,

476
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: Battleship taught you how to be a warmonger, to risk,

477
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: can take great pride. Risk taught you to be the Antichrist. Yeah, risk,

478
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: we should do what. There is an article on risk

479
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: I saw. I looked it over. It didn't seem as

480
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: as interesting as this one. Yeah. I don't know if

481
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: the history is as interesting. And I mean, isn't that

482
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: what what's interesting about any game, the history of it? Yeah?

483
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: I think so. So. Um, let's talk about the rules, dude. Okay,

484
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: let's start at the beginning. We'll start it. Go go.

485
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: It is where you start, and that's where you like

486
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: you said, you collect the two hundred every time you

487
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: land on it or pass it. Sometimes house rules, uh

488
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: you get four hundred for actually landing on it and

489
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: only two hundred for passing it. We never good. But

490
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: free parking is where we had house rules. Um, that

491
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: is a space on the corner of the board where

492
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: you supposedly for the official rules, don't do anything. Yeah,

493
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: there's nothing. It's just a space. But what we did

494
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: was we donated all the collected taxes and fees and

495
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: put it under free parking. And if you land on that,

496
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: that was like a lottery win. Oh yeah, and a

497
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: lot of people play that way. I think I've heard

498
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: of that one before. I liked it because they allowed

499
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: you more money, which is my favorite thing. Catch it's

500
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: alto yeah exactly. Uh, we got ahead of ourselves. Let's

501
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: just start at the real beginning. So everybody sits down

502
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: at the table, maybe because somebody, yeah, somebody gets a drink.

503
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: Maybe you have to wait because somebody has to go

504
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, So you're all sitting there quietly. And

505
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: then when everybody's finally at the table, you guys select

506
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: a banker, and the banker distributes the Monopoly money to

507
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: each player to five hundreds, to fifties, six twenties, and

508
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: five tens, five fives and five ones. That's hundred dollars.

509
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: And the goal of the game that we're getting to

510
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: here at thirty minutes in is to bankrupt all of

511
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: your family and friends. That's the whole point pretty much. Um.

512
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: Some people put a time limit because this game can

513
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: go on forever um, and other people say, no, it's

514
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: got a you gotta finish it by bankrupting everyone or

515
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: until the last person. That's like, I give jeez, I've

516
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: got eight dollars. I hate this game. Yeah. That's usually

517
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: me and Emily is usually has her foot on my throat.

518
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, we played two person Monopoly, which is

519
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: just not fun. Yeah, because you know one of you

520
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: is gonna lose. No, that's not why. It's just it's

521
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: a game that's more fun with more people. I think, Yeah,

522
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: I got yeah. Um, so okay, so everybody's got fifteen bucks.

523
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: You roll the dice to see who goes first. Whoever

524
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: rules the highest goes first. Classic. Then you roll both

525
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: die and you start moving from the ghost square and

526
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: you go clockwise around the board. And when you land

527
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: on a property. This I didn't know, which is kind

528
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: of a basic rule, I guess, but I never played

529
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: it this way. When you land on a property, you

530
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: have the option to buy it. I knew that part.

531
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: But if you decline to buy it, then the then

532
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: the property goes up for ACKs. I've never not only

533
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: have I never played it the way, I've never heard

534
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: of anyone playing it. Okay, so it's not just me,

535
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: not just you, all right, So uh I guess. Uh,

536
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: the during an auction, not only the person, not only

537
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: everybody else, but the banker and the person who declined

538
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: to buy it can bid on it, which didn't make

539
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: sense unless you're trying to get for lower because can't

540
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: you start the bidding it wherever. Yes, you can start

541
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: the bidding anywhere you want, so you could consumably get

542
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: it for lower. And if you're playing against somebody who

543
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: declines to buy something and then starts bidding on a

544
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: lower price, keep an eye on that person that sharp

545
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: to win. Yeah. Uh yeah, I hate that rule because

546
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: to me, it's just like, what's the point and rolling

547
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: and landing on something? I guess right at first refusal,

548
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know, I don't like it now.

549
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: And plus the Quakers were like, we specifically put a

550
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: price on these things so there wouldn't be a lot

551
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: of yelling. Yeah, we don't like yelling. Uh. They had

552
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: another game to follow called the quiet roof raising ceremony.

553
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: Those are not Quakers, that was the Amist. They're different.

554
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: Oh don't you think Quakers raise some roofs? Yeah, they ain't.

555
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: No party like a Quaker party. All right. So let's

556
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: say you buy all of the properties that you know

557
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: they're they're divided into different colors, Like there's three green

558
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: around you know, green ones, orange ones, blue ones, light blue. Um.

559
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: If you buy all of the properties that are tied

560
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: together by a single color, then you have what's called

561
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: a monopoly, and that means you can then charge double rent,

562
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: although we never do that. We just keep it single rent.

563
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: And you now have the option to buy houses. And

564
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: then once you have enough houses I think three, you

565
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: can then buy a hotel and let's call improvements. You're

566
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: improving your land. And once you start to do improvements, um,

567
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: things change a little bit. Not only can you start

568
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: making more money, but it's actually harder to mortgage your

569
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: properties if you are if you find yourself in debt, right,

570
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: because this is this is how crazy complicated it is.

571
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: Like I don't think I was ever paying that much

572
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: attention to monopoly that I ever mortgaged a piece of land.

573
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: I think it's like started to get into debt or whatever.

574
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: I was just like I'm done. Um, But apparently so

575
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: if you find yourself indebted, and let's say you have

576
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: a monopoly and um, you want to mortgage, you can

577
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: mortgage just one of the spots, right, But to do so,

578
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: let's say you have a hotel um on the that

579
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: piece of land that you're mortgaging, you first have to

580
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: sell the hotel back to the bank at half price,

581
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: and then you can mortgage the land. You're still I think,

582
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: are you collecting rent on that land? Or doesn't go

583
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: right to the bank. Now that's where um, you just

584
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: turn the card over and it's just you still technically

585
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: own it, but you can't collect any rents on it.

586
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: But you can't collect rent and everything on the other

587
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: two pieces of property or the other one, depending on

588
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: which one you own. I don't know, really you can't.

589
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: I looked it up. So that doesn't bust up the monopoly, No,

590
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: it doesn't Okay, so you still own the monopoly. It's

591
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: just that that one is mortgaged, and then to get

592
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: it back you have to pay the bank the mortgage

593
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: plus ten percent. Right. And this is where you can

594
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: get silly with your house rules if you want. Yeah,

595
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: you know, like as far as mortgaging and stuff like that,

596
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: because supposedly it's a rule to where you can't um.

597
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: The only thing that is not allowed as a personal loan.

598
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: And I did all kinds of personal loaning because I

599
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: was Mr Cash. What were your your interest rates? I

600
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: don't remember. Did you break any usury laws? No? That

601
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: was a kid, so it was it was probably just

602
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: like just pay me back whenever or something. I'm not

603
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: the right I'm not enough of a you're not the

604
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: start capitale. Now you're not the one who like declines

605
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: to buy something so you can bid on at a

606
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: lower price. I'm playing candy Land. I loved candy Land.

607
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: Actually I never played that. It was a great game,

608
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 1: was it because of the art? Crazy? It was beautiful

609
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: off and then nowa daisy look at the candy landpoint

610
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: and you're like, poor kids, Yeah, they don't know what

611
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: they're missing. I just got a Ticket to Ride game

612
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: that I haven't played yet. Have you heard of that one?

613
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: It was a German game that's like one game of

614
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: the year. It's a train train game, like you established

615
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: train routes between cities. Um, but it's supposedly like it

616
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: sounds like really that's fun, but it's supposedly great. I

617
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: just bled it t here. Did you at the thought

618
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: of it? Yeah, it does sound pretty bad, but no,

619
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: it's it's it's one game in the year. Why those

620
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: Germans and watch people Ticket to Ride enthusiasts will be like, dude,

621
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: it's the best ever I've heard. Like, German game night

622
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: is like a thing. Now, Yeah, I think they're a

623
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: little more heavy. Is that what it is? I think?

624
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: So this seems like I've read over the rules the

625
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: other night just so I would know what to do.

626
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: And because you've got to like the purchase over the

627
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: game has to be the game explainer as well. You

628
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: have to listen to craftword while you play. Yeah, well

629
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: you don't have to, but it helps house rules. Yeah,

630
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: so oh um, I guess we oh and we said

631
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: you you can do anything but give personal loans, right,

632
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: that's what the official rules state. So, like you can

633
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: I can buy from you on the side or something

634
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: like that, or you can hold something up for auction,

635
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: whatever anybody's doing. Yeah, and we always played where you

636
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: had to do that when it was your turn, and

637
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: that that would take your turn as well. Yeah. Um,

638
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: but again, the whole point is is to be the

639
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: person who owns the most stuff so that you can

640
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: bankrupt all of your family and friends. And I mean,

641
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: those are the rules, but there's actually strategy to it,

642
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: and people pay a lot of attention to this. You know,

643
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 1: there's a Monopoly World Championship ropeally every four years, although

644
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: it's been the last one in two thousand nine, so

645
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: we're due an American lawyer one, right, and no, I

646
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: think it was a Swede or maybe he was the

647
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: North American. That's what he was, the North American champion

648
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: and he represented the US and the world. Chan it shifts.

649
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: It sounds so silly. Yeah, well he uh he used

650
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: the iron. Yeah, I think the American used the thimble.

651
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: That's a that's the fact that people need. Well, we're

652
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 1: trying to really appeal to the purists here too, which

653
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: at everybody to be engaged. Okay, chucker, So again, the

654
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: point bankrupt. Everybody bankrupt. But there's like techniques that you

655
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: can use to more efficiently bankrupt people, like the the

656
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: overall the best strategy. The basic strategy is to buy

657
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: everything every chance you have. Yeah, I mean I've looked up.

658
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different people's uh strategies and opinions online. Um.

659
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: I did find this one from a guy and that

660
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: was his strategy is by everything, it doesn't matter what

661
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: it is, even the suckers bet the electric company and

662
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: the water works, Yeah, which I don't pay off. Really,

663
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: he said, buy it all and and never have more

664
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: than a hundred dollars in cash is his rule. He

665
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: says the number one people must mistake people make is

666
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: hoarding cash like I did. Yeah, you're making the number

667
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: one mistake, that's right. Uh. And he says that, um,

668
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: buy everything and do whatever it takes to get a monopoly,

669
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: even a bad one, like he will trade to get

670
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: a bad monopoly and give someone a good monopoly, even

671
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: as long as he gets the monopoly. And he says

672
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: it's fine because then you know, you two will probably

673
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: take out everyone else. Uh. The point is just to

674
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: get a monopoly and improve it as fast as you

675
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: can so supposedly though, Um, a general rule of film

676
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: among like hardcore monopoly players is that while you're improving

677
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: your monopoly your properties by adding houses or whatever, you

678
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: want to stop at three houses because the jump from

679
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: the third house to the hotel is financially it doesn't

680
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: pay off. Usually it's over improvement. Yeah, just like in

681
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: your home, like, don't build that eighty thousand dollar kitchen

682
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna get your money back on that, right,

683
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: So three three houses. This guy doesn't subscribe to that.

684
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: He buys everything and puts hotels on it. Yeah, he says,

685
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: as first as he get as soon as he gets

686
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: his first monopoly, he mortgages everything else to get cash

687
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: back and then uses that cash to improve, which I

688
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: thought was a little risky. Yeah, a couple of bad roles.

689
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a game of strategy, but the end

690
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: of the day, you're rolling dice, and so it is

691
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: very much a game of chance. I'll bet that guy

692
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: feels like he's on the back of a pegasus though

693
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: the whole game, Like he's just thrilled. He claims. He

694
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: claims to have won a game in twelve minutes one time,

695
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: which I thought was shooting his own horn a bit.

696
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: Yeah sure, Um, but real regular strategy. You're right, they

697
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 1: say three houses is the max you should go. Um,

698
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: and then there's also some that you should avoid. Even

699
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: though this seemed like very tempting, we already said the

700
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: electric company and the water company, the utilities. The the

701
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: most you can get for rent from landing on it

702
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: was ten times a roll of the dice, which is

703
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty bucks. It could be as low

704
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: as twenty dollars. So I mean, this guy would probably say, well, hey,

705
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: it was worth it, Like I still own them and

706
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: I'm still making money if somebody lands on them. But

707
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,479
Speaker 1: a lot of Again, the monopoly pierists say just stay

708
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: away from him. And you also may want to stay

709
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: away from the most expensive ones boardwalk in park Place.

710
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: Yeah they're they're only two of them, and um, they

711
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: just don't get landed on very much. Yeah, so think

712
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: about it right out of the gate when you're thinking

713
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: of probabilities. Um, the fact that there's two of these

714
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: properties rather than three means that you are that another

715
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: player is less likely to land on your monopoly because

716
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: there's three or two instead of three. So that's one problem.

717
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: The other problem is placement where they are. They're right

718
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: after um go right for right before. Yeah, so it's

719
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 1: at the end of the board essentially. No, I'm sorry,

720
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: they're right before jail. No, they're right before, they're right

721
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: before go. Okay. So that means that most most players

722
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: are going to well, they're going to pass them for

723
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: sure whenever they hit that um go directly to go

724
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 1: exactly yeah. Um. So that means that your your monopoly

725
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: is going to be passed over. The likelihood of making

726
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: your money back recouping it, especially if they're improved to

727
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: the hilt, like a really fancy hotel, means that a

728
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: lot of money. Yeah, you you've probably sunk a lot

729
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: of money unwisely into those You want to go for

730
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: some other ones, Yeah, supposedly, and there are people that

731
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: have done Uh. There was this one guy. If you

732
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: really want to get into monopoly, this dude, I don't

733
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: even know his name, but just look up probabilities in

734
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: the game of Monopoly and Scientific American in the mid

735
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: nineties at the article that talked about probabilities of landing

736
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: on different spaces, but they excluded um community chest and

737
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: chance and being sent to jail. So this guy said,

738
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: I took all of that and included everything, and he

739
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: has a statistical charts long term probabilities for ending up

740
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: on each square, expected income per opponent role, average income

741
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: per role, expected number of opponent role, to recoup incremental

742
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: costs UH, to recoup mortgages. So it's the name of

743
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: his website. By the way, his monopoly was fun dot com.

744
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 1: It totally should be um, but um. If you just

745
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: want to do some basic probabilities, the orange properties are

746
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: landed on more than anyone else. Yes, and why chuck

747
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:44,479
Speaker 1: because they are after jail. Yeah, six eight and nine

748
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 1: spaces after jail. Yeah. So if you get sent to jail,

749
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: which is going to happen at some point and we

750
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: actually we didn't talk about jail, we'll talk about that,

751
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: then you, uh, yeah, chances are you're gonna hit one

752
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: of those orange squares on your way out of jail. Yeah,

753
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 1: because you're rolling with two dice, so you're much more

754
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: likely to roll like a six, s eight or a

755
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: nine then you are like a two or three or

756
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: a one. Yeah. It's not even possible to roll at one.

757
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: Try it. You can't. You can't unless you eat one

758
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: of the dice, and in which case, unless it's a

759
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 1: house rule, everybody's gonna yell at you and have to

760
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,720
Speaker 1: wait around until you poop it out to keep playing. Actually,

761
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: our rule was you had to roll the child in

762
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: what the child you ate the dice? Oh yeah, all right,

763
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: So jail um is in the corner of the board,

764
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: and you can there are a few different ways you

765
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: can go there. You can draw a go to jail card.

766
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: You can throw three doubles in a row and go

767
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: to jail. Yeah, which I never understood because that's a

768
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: good thing, I guess, but it's also the sign of

769
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: the devil. So that's why you have to go to

770
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 1: jail for a little while to be cleansed. Or there

771
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 1: is a square march to go to jail, and you

772
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: can land on that and go to jail. You can

773
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: also get out in three ways. You can have that

774
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: get out of Jail free card. If you draw that,

775
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: you can hold onto it. We could sell it, although

776
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: I think that's a house rule. You can sell it

777
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: to a friend or enemy, uh, whoever, whoever had the

778
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: most cast right exactly. Uh. And then you basically the

779
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: other ways to roll to either pay your way out

780
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,959
Speaker 1: for with fifty bucks or to roll your way out.

781
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: The way we played it was each turn you had

782
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: one chance to roll your way out of jail. So

783
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: you rolling doubles right, um, and then if you under

784
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: official rules, if you don't roll doubles for three consecutive turns,

785
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: like you get three consecutive chances to roll doubles, and

786
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: if you don't on any of those turns, then you

787
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: have to pay fifty bucks to get out of jail.

788
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: We just played where you just got out and you

789
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: didn't have to pay. Well, then you guys weren't following

790
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: the rules. I told you the house rules us. So

791
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: there's actually a strategy to jail. Um, if you go

792
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: to jail early on in the game, you want to

793
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: pay your fifty bucks to get out immediately, just pay

794
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: the fifty bucks because then you can keep going around

795
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: the board and there's more stuff lable to buy. But

796
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: later in the game you want to just kind of

797
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: hang out in jail. Yeah, Like Josh has bought all

798
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: the orange spaces and you've got hotels on each one,

799
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: so I'm thinking that might be good to sit in

800
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: jail for a few rounds. Yeah, because you can still

801
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: collect rent on your properties, but the fact that you're

802
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: in jail keeps you off of my properties. Yeah, and

803
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 1: all another Bryant rule we played where when you were

804
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: in jail you could not collect any rents. Yeah, I

805
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 1: mean that makes sense, but according to official rules, you

806
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: just make as much money as you want there, and

807
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: apparently in jail you can officially you can also buy

808
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: and sell properties and improve your in collect rent, and

809
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: build hotels and houses, which I thought, I don't know,

810
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: if you're in jail, kind of lose that right. It

811
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: seems like in real jail that's the way it is. No,

812
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 1: it's not. You can own a house and be in jail.

813
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: I guess that's true, and technically you could probably charge

814
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: rent to someone. You could sub let it, like I'm

815
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 1: gonna be gone for three to six. No, it's true.

816
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 1: But what happens when dis roster breaks trying to get

817
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: let out of jail to go fix it. They're not

818
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: gonna let you do that. It's very funny, but it's

819
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: true too. Uh. Probability experts also say you get a

820
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: good return on buying all the railroads because they're pretty cheap.

821
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: There's one on each side, and once you have each

822
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: once you own all of them. Um, they're two hundred

823
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: dollars in rent, so that's not too bad, not too shabby,

824
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: but to me, and monopoly is the reason monopolies are valuable.

825
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: But it is because they're in a row, whereas the

826
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 1: railroads are spaced out. And our friend, the strategist who

827
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 1: thinks he uh invented the game says, but what you

828
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 1: have to remember is none of these strategies matter because

829
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: you're playing. It's a game of people and personalities. So

830
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: he said, you gotta sit back and watch the different

831
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: personalities emerge and then you manipulate that like the cash

832
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: hoarder versus the shark. And uh, he's like, you really

833
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: playing against people. Man, that's interesting, I thought. So okay,

834
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: so let's talk about another friend, an economist friend. His

835
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: name is Ralph Ant Spock. Yes, and he back in

836
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: the seventies had a game called anti Monopoly. Yeah. He

837
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: was an econ professor at San Francisco States and um,

838
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: like made his own real game. Like he didn't just

839
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: like draw it up on paper, like, he started a

840
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: little small business and manufactured it. Apparently sold about two

841
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: thousand copies of it, like, right, out of the gate,

842
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: like it just hit a nerve. Again. It's called anti monopoly,

843
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 1: and the whole point of it was to break up

844
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: monopolies rather than build monopolies. Yeah. At the beginning of

845
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: the game is essentially the end of a regular game,

846
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: like everyone starts off with monopolies. Uh. And instead of

847
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: real estate and utilities, um and anti monopoly, they had

848
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: their individual busins. This is that had been brought under

849
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: a single ownership, and you take the role of federal

850
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: caseworker and bring indictments against monopolized businesses. In order to

851
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: turn return the board to a free market system. You

852
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: have to wear sensible shoes. It sounds awesome. Yeah. Well,

853
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: and he came up with this because he was trying

854
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: to apparently explain to his son what was wrong and

855
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: bad about monopolies and I suspect capitalism to a certain extent,

856
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,479
Speaker 1: and he came up with this game instead, Like I said,

857
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: sold a substantial amount two copies of the game, especially

858
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: back in the seventies, that was pretty good as a startup. Yeah,

859
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: you know, and it caught Parker brothers attention enough that

860
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: they sent him a cease and desist letter, took him

861
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: to court, got a court order for him to hand

862
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: over his like thirty seven thousand copies that he had

863
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: in his warehouse, and um they Parker Brothers went and

864
00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: unceremoniously buried him in a landfill in Minnesota. So, UM,

865
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: Ralph didn't cott into this very much. He didn't like that.

866
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: He doesn't like to be pushed around. I get the impression. No,

867
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: I mean, a guy who makes anti monopoly is not

868
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 1: gonna cave in the courts initially, and he did so,

869
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: like very much, at his own financial detriment. He had

870
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: a very expensive team of lawyers at first, UM and

871
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: spent quite a bit of money fighting Parker Brothers for

872
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: the right to use anti Monopoly, and UM what, it

873
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: wasn't really going anywhere and he was losing a lot

874
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: of money. So he started to do legwork himself, found

875
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: a lawyer friend UM who worked on the cheap for him,

876
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: and that's when things started taking off. Yeah, I mean,

877
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: he basically uncovered the lie that it was invented by

878
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: Charles Darrow. He found out that the game was essentially

879
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: in the public domain, or should have been, and UM

880
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: went all the way to the Supreme Court. One. Yeah,

881
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: he won at the Supreme Court, this acount professor came

882
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: up with a game called Anti Monopoly. One in the

883
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: Supreme Court won the right to name his game anti Monopoly. Yeah,

884
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: I mean he he deposed the the two Quakers that

885
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,439
Speaker 1: were friends of Hoskins. They were old at that point.

886
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: They took the stand. Um. He deposed the CEO of

887
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: Parker Brothers, and he took the stand and it had

888
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: to admit under oath like, yeah, we did kind of

889
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: steal it nice the idea from that lady Um after all.

890
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: And so, as Ralph says, the the whole point to

891
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: him was for this true story, the true origins of

892
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: monopoly and how it came about, the whole point of

893
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,479
Speaker 1: it originally could still be told openly that what he said,

894
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: um couldn't be bought at any price in his opinion,

895
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: that's right, So way to go, Ralph. Yeah, he wrote

896
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: a book, uh awkwardly titled the Billion Dollar Monopoly in

897
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: swindle Colin during David and Goliath battle. Anti Monopoly uncovers

898
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: the secret history of Monopoly. That's a little clunky, little clunky,

899
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: but it's still around. Um In. There was a new

900
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 1: version called Anti Monopoly too, where you could actually be

901
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 1: a monopolist or a competitor. So you got to choose,

902
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: which I thought was interesting. And Uh, if you chose

903
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: the competitor, you charge lower rents and you can improve

904
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: property at anytime. But if you're a monopolist, you have

905
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 1: to own at least two properties before in a group,

906
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: before building houses, in charge a lot higher rents. So

907
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: I think you're like playing against the two systems within

908
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 1: the same game. That's really interesting. Yeah, I'm gonna I

909
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: might grab one of these and see what it's like.

910
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: Maybe tell everybody's German. Uh, you got anything else? I

911
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: got nothing else. I do the longest Monopoly game of

912
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: all time seventy days. I played a game of risk

913
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: that seemed like it lasted that long once. It may have.

914
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: It didn't last long, but lasted a weekend. Okay, um,

915
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: and Monopoly. I don't have the patience for that. I'll

916
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: just give up. I'll take my cafit cash and go

917
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: home your horde of it. Yeah, you're like, oh, that's

918
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: saved all this money. That's right, and I own the utilities. Uh.

919
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,359
Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about Monopoly, including how

920
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: to play, if you don't like house rules, but you

921
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: also don't feel like looking at the official rule book,

922
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: you can just go on the how Stuff works and

923
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: check out the rules that is in this article to

924
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: site monopoly in the search bar at house to works

925
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: dot com. And since as I searched bar, it's time

926
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: for chuck Facebook questions. Uh so, people, this is what

927
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: we do sometimes when we don't have a listener mail prepared,

928
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: we will go on Facebook asked for questions, and then

929
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: over the course of a couple of episodes, we will

930
00:52:55,200 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: read those out in rapid fire like fashion. We don't

931
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: do anything in rapid fire fast. I couldn't even explain

932
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: rapid fire fashion and rapid fire. All right, So I'm

933
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna start this off with Louise Benjamin says, with as

934
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: many shows as he recorded, how many would you like

935
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 1: to go back and redo? Um, just a small handful.

936
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: I would say that. I was literally kind of like,

937
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: I'm really disappointed with that. Yeah, you're a little harder

938
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: honest than I am. Though. What's weird is like any

939
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: time I do say like that was terrible, You're like, yeah,

940
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: it wasn't bad, and I'll go back and listen to

941
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: I'll be like it was way better than I thought.

942
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: That's what Jerry says when you leave the room. She says,

943
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: they're always better than anything's. Oh really, I didn't realize

944
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,800
Speaker 1: Jerry talked about me when I wasn't here or spoke

945
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: at all when I was in she was not allowed. Alright,

946
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 1: you got one, I do. Um. Let's see, do either

947
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: of us have a preference as to what type of

948
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: vacuum cleaner you use? That's from Taylor Jean Warner with

949
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: the most pedestrian question anyone's ever asked. Uh not if

950
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: you were into vacuuming, My friend, very important. I love vacuuming.

951
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 1: I have an electro luck canister vacuum. Oh really, I

952
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: call it LuxI and Emily is not allowed to operate it. Yeah.

953
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 1: Uh you mean. And I have a Dyson one of

954
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: the little, not the big one. Yeah, one of the

955
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: smaller ones. Yeah, with the yellow ball. Uh just a

956
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: regular upright back. Yeah yeah. I got on the canister

957
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: thing years ago. I love him. I don't know why

958
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: this thing took Like you know, they they're like, you

959
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: never loses suction, it's very powerful or whatever. I accidentally

960
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: rolled over the cord to charge my phone. It sucked

961
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: the rubber off of the cord. Yeah, I had to

962
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: put electrical TakeBack on. It does suck. All right, that's

963
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: some buzz marketing. Joseph Campbell, what is your advice on

964
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: how to have a successful marriage? Joseph Campbell asked us

965
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: a question. Yeah, wow, you should know this question. Her answer, Uh, Mary, Mary,

966
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: your friend. It's my biggest piece of advice. That's a

967
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: good one because if you don't like your spouse, then

968
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: you can't love your spouse. Yeah. Mary, the person you

969
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: want hang out with the most, you should write a

970
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: self help book. The end, I have another one for you,

971
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: Chuck read. Yes. Bethany Jackson asks are you ever going

972
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: to get another pet Goat? No out, Well, never say never. Yeah,

973
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 1: one day I will when I retire, Like to the country,

974
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: I would love another goat? Is they're the best? That

975
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: answers that. Josh kry Obermac says, what is your favorite

976
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,439
Speaker 1: Simpsons episode? Oh, that's a tough one, but I'm gonna

977
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: have to go with the old standby of Mr Sparkle.

978
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Montaeel's or any of the Halloween

979
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: like one through ten or so those are just great.

980
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: Um Robert Browning Justice League or Avengers. I don't know

981
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 1: what that means. Really, Yeah, you do. As a kid,

982
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 1: I was Justice League. I was way more into that.

983
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: But here's an adult like that Avengers movie is great.

984
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm into that. Justice League is DC. Yeah, Superman definitely, Batman. Yeah,

985
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: although I like the the super Friends. That was all

986
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: Justice League, wasn't it. Uh? Yeah, okay, well I have

987
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 1: a coherent answer, then okay for live action animation, not

988
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: live action, but for animation, I prefer Justice League. For

989
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: comic books, I preferred um Avengers Marvel. Well in the

990
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: new movie. Uh, they're doing the Superman Batman movie and

991
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: then a full on Justice League movie is just leading

992
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: up to that. So we'll see jury's out. Yeah on

993
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: motion pictures, but yeah, it's gonna be hard. Took the

994
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: Avengers maybe not was not motion pictures cartoon only, no, no, no,

995
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,919
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the new movies that are coming out soon.

996
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: Billy Schultz says, were they're rejected titles for the podcast?

997
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: Before you landed on stuff you should know? Since you

998
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: named it, I think you should answer. I came up

999
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: with a bunch of um ideas. One of them was

1000
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: McNeil Lair News Hour, but that was already taken, but

1001
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: Stephie shows in the original list of ideas, what Terminator two?

1002
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: Judgment day? All right, get your next? Do you want

1003
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: me go next? Yeah? Um, let's see. Oh this is

1004
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: a good one. Christopher mark Ree says, which of the

1005
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: two are your favorite person for promoting science? Bill Nye

1006
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: or Neil Degrath Tyson? Good one, man, They're both so great,

1007
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: I say, and d T Yeah yeah, Cosmos is awesome.

1008
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: It is awesome. He also, um is totally comfortable like

1009
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: rocking a shirt un buttoned at the top. Two Like

1010
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: he's he's like the Billy d Williamson. Yeah, uh yeah.

1011
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: And he was on her TV shows, which is really nice.

1012
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: You kind of have to go with him, all right. Um,

1013
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: he's a good guy. Naomi Hartman garum. Oh. This is

1014
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: fromer Son Jackson age nine. What was your favorite book

1015
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: when you were kids? My favorite book when I was

1016
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: a kid was like around your age or younger, was

1017
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper. It's about a bunch of

1018
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: mice in New York that moved into Macy's during Christmas

1019
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: time and uh, Santa is kidnapped and they sold the cakes. Wow.

1020
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: It was a great great book. What was they called

1021
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper? And it wasn't like a

1022
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: little kid's book. I mean, that was my first novel.

1023
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:35,919
Speaker 1: It was long, long form. That was your favorite book

1024
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: when you're a kid. Yep. My favorite book when I

1025
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: was a little kid was a Christmas book. I think

1026
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: it was a golden book called something like a Visit

1027
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: to Santa's Workshop or something. Yeah, it was so cute.

1028
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: And then, uh, strangely, the first series of novels that

1029
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: I ever loved were Ramona Quimby books. Oh really, man,

1030
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: I used to eat those up and I would take

1031
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: flak too at school. I didn't I love those books? Yeah?

1032
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: I loved Encyclopedia Brown. Oh yeah, he was good. And

1033
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,919
Speaker 1: then you know, when I was younger, younger, you can't

1034
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 1: do better than Dr Susan Chel Silverstein, stuff like that.

1035
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: The classes. Um, I've got one, all right, go ahead,

1036
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Speaker 1: h if this is from Alejandro Sandy. So you could

1037
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Speaker 1: live in any era of history, which time would you

1038
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: live in? Why? That's always so hard. I'm going back

1039
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: to what I said before me you me Cuba nineteen twenties. Okay,

1040
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna say New York and like, I

1041
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:34,439
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe the nineteen thirties that'd be pretty fun.

1042
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: That's a drinking and dancing. Yeah, well that's the Cuba

1043
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: in the twenties. Yeah, exactly, you just had the Latin flavor. Uh,

1044
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: Kevin Kinzie, which pickled thing? Do you prefer most eggs, cucumbers, peppers,

1045
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,439
Speaker 1: or cauliflower or anything else? I don't need pickled things,

1046
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Speaker 1: So that's you. I love pickled everything. It's so good

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Speaker 1: for you too. Oh really? Oh yeah, it helps you

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Speaker 1: digest bats a lot are easily. Um. It's just really healthy,

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Speaker 1: like eating pickled stuff. You don't like pickles, don't? Um?

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Speaker 1: I have one more ala Aslin Bridel boy. There's some

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Speaker 1: weird names on Facebook. How do I make a ten

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01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: year old more responsible? You're getting all the heavy questions

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01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: like secret to successful Marrits, How do you make your

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Speaker 1: kid good? I think you know you gotta get put

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Speaker 1: them to work, make them make or get them a pet.

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Speaker 1: You make them responsible for something and that they're interested in.

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Speaker 1: It would be my advice. I agree with both of

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Speaker 1: your pieces of advice. Marry the person that you want

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Speaker 1: to spend time with you and did your kid at Hamster. Yes,

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Speaker 1: put them to work. Charge money. You got any more? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I got too many more? Pick one? Okay are you ready? Yes?

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Speaker 1: The one that I pick is as follows uh from

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Speaker 1: Mike Reels, Arnie or Stallone. It depends on the year.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say I would go Schwarzenegger. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: eighties Schwarzenegger nowadays who cares no. But if we're like

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Speaker 1: taking the time work back to the eighties, I was

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Speaker 1: Conan the Barbarian, the original Terminator, all deal, total recall. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all pretty great. Um. I'm a huge first Blood

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Speaker 1: fan and Rocky fan. Yeah, this was tough not to

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Speaker 1: go with Stallone, although he made some really bad movies,

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Speaker 1: um like Tango Assassin, Tango in Cash and uh the

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Speaker 1: Dolly Parton one about when he's a country singer. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Stone, Ryan Stone, Um, Cobra Like wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: those are awful movies. What what you didn't like Cobra?

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Speaker 1: How did you? Yes? Huh? Not for me? It must

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Speaker 1: have been the age difference. Yeah, so I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: Arnie too. Okay, how about that? There you go. Uh.

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Speaker 1: If you want to ask Chuck or me questions, you

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